Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

MrsMoo2U

Windy here too and sideways rain. Blah.

I use the 30 free texts with Orange. it is simple to do, just register your phone number and go to your account and text away. I am on the Dolphin tariff because I cant work any of the others out. So much for being MSE. need to look into it I guess.

moo2moo

Fab. Thanks MrsMoo. I'll have a play with that later.

Meanwhile here at Chez Moo its been a fun filled day. I've sorted some of the knitting needles. Enough to have three decent pairs of every size. Need to blow £1.35 on a size gauge to figure out what sizes the double ended ones are. Did start doing it with OHs vernier but its such a faff. Don't think he'll be too impressed if I flatten the battery in the process.

Dropped the surplus needles off with a friend for her to peruse much to her OHs disgust. Stayed to sample her gluten free chocolate cake. Surpisingly yummy but most definately potatoey too. V. odd in a rather moreish way.

Tided out a drawer into which to bung the needles and then tackled the cupboard under the stairs so as to relocate the stuff I'd turfed out of the drawer. Discovered a dozen bottle so laundry liquid. Rather glad I didn't get the BOGOF stuff at Mr Ts on Saturday.

After several e-mails managed to persude someone at the wool shop that I'm not a colourblind moron. The correct wool is on its way. As an added bonus it looks like I get to keep the other stuff too which is most excellent because its a really nice colour.

Off to grab some lunch before continuing ... quite what with is up for debate.

moo2moo

stripes wrote: »

I had to laugh when you mentioned the hubby went to work with a saw for his travels!:eek: My husband has only ever managed a snow shovel! Have a good day!

Ummm still haven't taken the snow shovel out of my car or the 5 ton tow rope or the dozen or so shackles, mini stove, mess tins, spoons or tins of soup...... seems a bit daft to do it now.

Mags_cat

Have you seen this thread?

It reminded me of why I started reading your diary, moo. It was you that contributed to a similar thread, many moons ago to tell the story of the builders, the sticky foam and the strawberry shower gel, wasn't it? :rotfl:

That one post got me hooked on your sense of humour and writing style :T

moo2moo

Mags_cat wrote: »

Have you seen this thread?

It reminded me of why I started reading your diary, moo. It was you that contributed to a similar thread, many moons ago to tell the story of the builders, the sticky foam and the strawberry shower gel, wasn't it? :rotfl:

That one post got me hooked on your sense of humour and writing style :T

Theres never a looking up at the sky innocently whistling smiley around when you need one

chevalier

Glad DD survived the day, but oops about what she ate. On the other hand at least she did eat......
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Double_Trouble

moo2moo wrote: »

Theres never a looking up at the sky innocently whistling smiley around when you need one

I think we need a link :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DTxx

moo2moo

DD1 managed pizza and brownies for lunch. She didn't spend all her lunch money so enquired as to whether she might be allowed to keep the change but then went on to admit to still being a bit hungry after lunch *insert banging head against a brick wall smily here*. Mcuh face pulling was made but shes going to brave the dining room tomorrow instead of the snack bar... healthy eating is obviously alive and well in high schools.

She was in shock at being given her first homework and a deadline of tomorrow to be performed on the PC. She wasn't at all impressed when it emerged from the prnter in shades of green and black rather than the technicolour montage she was expecting. The response to the surly tennage outburst of "What am I supposed to tell the teacher?" was the most obvious "try the printer is out of ink and your mother is too selfish to go to the shop to purchase more tonight". Cue much humphing and huffing and much "I'll be the only person is class blah blah blah". Tis most joyful having a hormonally challenged preenager about the house.

Finally managed to get a refund from Parcel2go after only three months, several dozen e-mails and many promises of the fictional cheque being in the post. Means I have to visit the civilised world to pay it into a bank so will combine that with a supermarket forray and the topping up of the gas guzzlers fume repository tomorrow.

OH is muttering about taking £250 or so as pocket money to the sodding landrover show just in case..... just in case he finds a coffin the perfect fit perhaps?????

moo2moo

Double_Trouble wrote: »

I think we need a link :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DTxx

I'm afraid I wouldn't have a clue how to do that......

moo2moo

Shamelessly cut and pasted from a post way back in the dark ages with a suspicioiusly similar user name to myself which probably explains the confusions.....

We had builders in on a very hot day, topless short wearing builders. Unlike most ordinary white van driving builders this trio had a lovely navy blue example which was extremely hot inside. 2ish in the afternoon when it can't physically have got much hotter they retrieved from the van a ginormous can of expanding foam (the M.S.E. part of the story - economy through bulk buying). They then proceeded to climb up a set of steps and squeeze the trigger. Like a thing possessed the can exploded spraying the room and its contents with expanding foam. Being a practical kind of guy the one holding the can ran to the nearest door and tossed the can into the garden still spewing its contents everywhere coating everything in its path with blobs of expanding foam carpets, walls, furniture and builders. It also set very rapidly. One of them, obviously the one with the hairiest chest, had managed to get it into his belly button prior to bending over and getting stuck to himself.

Logic says you attempt to get off as much foam as possible from the affected person before it sets. Which is why the OH arrived home to find me standing on the drive in full view of passing traffic hosing down a naked buider (only at the point he removed his shorts did I discover that was all he was wearing). Builder is at this point very vigorously rubbing his hands around what appeared from the end of the driveway to be his nether regions. OH stormed up the driveway to be confronted by a very sheepish strawberry scented naked builder and me, and the other 2 builders, in fits of giggles.

I never did manage to get the expanding foam off the tumble drier or the windows. But I did discover that the only way to remove expanding foam from a hairy builder is to place under icy cold garden tap, hose down whilst scrubbing with exfoliator, dry and then apply hair clippers. Fortunately I wasn't the one who had to explain to his wife why he'd arrive home smelling of strawberries with a cleanly shaven belly.